Barbed fence-wire



(No Model.)

J. E. HUNT.

BARBED FENCE" WIRE.

No. 338,229. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. HUN-'1, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

IZECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,229, dated March16,1886.

Application filed May 8,1885. Serial No. 164,826. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Barbed Fence-Wire, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved barbedfence-wire in which the barbs are held 011 a single wire as firmly andsecurely as they are held on twisted wires.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of.parts as hereina-fter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which a perspective View of my improvedfence'wire is shown.

The plain fence-wire A is provided with the loop B, which is slightlycontracted at its open end. The wire 0, having its ends pointed orbeveled oif to form the barbs, is passed through the loop 13, andiswrapped one or more times around the loop, the pointed ends projectingin opposite directions. Thereby the wire 0 is held securely on the wireA as well as it is held on a twisted wire.

I am aware that a barb consisting of apiece of wire bent into the formof a figure 8, with its ends projecting in opposite directions andsecured upon a bent wire, is old; and I am also aware that a barbconsisting of two pieces of wire has been secured to a wire with a bendin it by wrappingsaid pieces of wire around the bend atright angles toeach other, so as to interlock and securely hold them to the wire, withtheir ends projecting outward, and I therefore do not claim suchinventions.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The combination, with the wire A, providedwith the loop B,having its open end contracted, of the wire 0, wrappedaround the loop with its ends projecting in opposite directions andhaving one end projecting through the said loop, substantially as hereinshown and de scribed.

. JAMES E. HUNT. lVitnesses:

HAMILTON M. WALRATH, JOHN F. HUGHSON.

